Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

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  • Designing and Assessing Authentic Software Development Projects in Undergraduate Computing Education

    Team software development projects are a crucial component of undergraduate computing education. Studies of software developers in industry underscore the need…

  • Sketchtivity, an Intelligent Tutoring Software: Improving Sketching Skills for Engineers

    Sketching is a crucial skill in engineering, yet sketching education has continued to take a smaller role in engineering curriculum since the transition to Com…

  • Step-Based Tutoring as a Tool to Support both Remote and In-Person Learning of Diverse Students

    A key current issue is making high-quality education accessible to non-traditional students who are unable to attend college in person for four years, as exemp…

  • Universal Design for Learning Instructional Practice Observation Protocol

    Need: While students vary in their needs, abilities, and interests, postsecondary instructors often do not know how to provide support for some types of learne…

  • The importance of validity testing – Goal Orientation and Goal Affordance

    NeedWe proposed to combine two high-impact practices - undergraduate research and service learning - in the context of service learning, course-based undergrad…

  • The Role of Sketching in Engineering and Impacts of an Intelligent Tutoring Software, Sketchtivity

    Freehand sketching is an essential skill for engineers. Sketching enables designers to represent ideas rapidly and offload working memory. Sketching frequently…

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